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Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise
Chariot and Charioter lay overturnd [ 390 ]
Far otherwise th inviolable Saints
Encamping, placd in Guard thir Watches round,
Then first with fear surprisd and sense of paine
By sin of disobedience, till that hour
Now Night 九*九*藏*书*网her course began, and over Heavn
Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome. [ 385 ]
Gave them above thir foes, not to have sinnd,
Cherubic waving fires: on th other part
For strength from Truth divided and from Just,
And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires
And now thir Mightiest quelld, the battel swervd,
And in the midst thus undismaid began.
Orewearied, through the faint Satanic Host
In Cubic Phalanx firm advanct entire,
And fierie foaming Steeds; what stood, recwww.99lib.netoyld
With shiverd armour strown, and on a heap
Satan with his rebellious disappeerd,
By wound, though from thir place by violence movd. [ 405 ]
Enterd, and foul disorder; all the ground
Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposd,
Not liable to fear or flight or paine99lib.net.
Under her Cloudie covert both retird,
Vain glorious, and through infamie seeks fame:
Such high advantages thir innocence
Unwearied, unobnoxious to be paind
With many an inrode gord; deformed rout
And silence on the odious dinn of Warr:
Invulnerable, impenitrably armd: 九九藏书网[ 400 ]
Fled ignominious, to such evil brought [ 395 ]
Victor and Vanquisht: on the foughten field [ 410 ]
Michael and his Angels prevalent
Defensive scarse, or with pale fear surprisd,
Far in the dark dislodgd, and void of rest, [ 415 ]
Not to have disobeid; in fight they stood